Terms of service

IMPORTANT — READ CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SOFTWARE: THESE TERMS OF SERVICE (“Terms”) AS SET FORTH IN THIS TERMS OF SERVICE AGREEMENT (“Agreement”), AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME, ARE A BINDING CONTRACT BETWEEN YOU, WHETHER PERSONALLY OR ON BEHALF OF AN ENTITY (“you”) AND COUB LTD (the “Company”, or “we”). COUB LTD IS A COMPANY FORMED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE COUNTRY OF CYPRUS.AND THESE TERMS ARE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.

THE COMPANY’S USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO THE COMPANY AND USAGE DATA IS GOVERNED BY THE COUB PRIVACY POLICY (“Privacy Policy”) AT http://coub.com/privacy

YOU MUST READ AND AGREE TO THE PRIVACY POLICY AND THESE TERMS GOVERNING YOUR USE OF THE COMPANY’S SERVICES, INCLUDING THE COUB.COM WEBSITE (THE “WEBSITE”), THE MOBILE APPLICATIONS, FEATURES OR FUNCTIONALITY AND SOFTWARE (COLLECTIVELY, THE “COUB SERVICES”), BEFORE USING THE COUB SERVICES. BY INSTALLING, OR OTHERWISE USING THE COUB SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, DO NOT INSTALL OR OTHERWISE USE THE COUB SERVICES.

The Coub Services allow users to access the Website and use certain mobile and online applications to create short media productions to share with other users and/or post them to the Website. The Coub Services are currently free of charge, but the Company reserves a right to charge fees for the Company Services upon notice to you. The Coub Services are hosted in the United States. Use of the Website and/or Coub Services is also subject to the Company’s Privacy Policy available at http://coub.com/privacy, which explains how the Company collects and uses your information. You may opt out of future emails about our Website or the Coub Services by following instructions in our Privacy Policy, on our Website, or contained in an email that you receive from us. We reserve the right, however, to email you important information relating to your account in accordance with Section 11 below, including copyright or regulatory communications.

Eligibility.

By using the Coub Services, you represent and warrant that: (a) all registration information you submit is truthful and accurate; (b) you will maintain the accuracy of such information; (c) you are 13 years of age or older; and (d) your use of the Coub Services does not violate any applicable law or regulation.

User Representations and Warranties.

You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from your postings to the interactive portions of the Website of copyrighted user generated content, consisting generally of one or more video loops with or without audio, containing pictures, data, graphics files, referred to on the Website as a “COUB”, or any other content contributions you create, post or communicate to other users via the Coub Services (each a “Contribution”, and collectively, “Contributions”). When you create or make available a Contribution, you thereby represent and warrant that:

the creation, distribution, transmission, public display and performance, accessing, downloading and copying of your Contribution does not and will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights of any third party;

you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to your Contribution, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to viewers any required terms;

your Contribution does not contain any viruses, worms, Trojan horses, malicious code or other harmful or destructive content;

your Contribution is not obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing or otherwise objectionable, libelous or slanderous, does not advocate the violent overthrow of the government of the United States, does not incite, encourage or threaten immediate physical harm against another, does not violate any applicable law, regulation, or rule, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;

your Contribution does not contain material that solicits personal information from anyone under 18 or exploit people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, and does not violate any federal or state law concerning child pornography or otherwise intended to protect the health or wellbeing of minors;

if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either (a) received permission from your employer to make available the Contribution, or (b) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to your Contribution;

your Contribution does not violate any state or federal law designed to regulate electronic advertising;

your Contribution does not amount to trolling, or the making of controversial statements for the sole purpose of generating responses by others;

your Contribution does not constitute, contain, install or attempt to install or promote spyware, malware or other computer code, whether on the Company’s or others computers or equipment, designed to enable you or others to gather information about or monitor the online or other activities of another party;

your Contribution does not inundate the Coub Services with communications or other traffic suggesting no serious intent to use the Coub Services for its stated purpose;

your Contribution does not otherwise violate, or link to material that violates, any provision of this Agreement or any applicable law or regulation; and

your Contribution does not contain pictures, data, audio or visual files, or any other content that is excessive in size, as determined by Company in its sole discretion.

Prohibited Activities.

You may not access or use the Coub Services for any other purpose other than that for which the Company makes them available. Certain activities, even if legal, may violate the common rules of etiquette governing Contributions, as determined by the Company in the Company’s sole discretion. Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to:

advertising to, or solicitation of, any user to buy or sell any products or services;

transmitting chain letters or junk email to other users;

using any information obtained from the Coub Services in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any user without their prior explicit consent;

engaging in any automated use of the systems operated by the Coub Services, such as using scripts to add friends or send comments or messages;

interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the Coub Services or the networks or services connected to the Coub Services;

attempting to impersonate another user or person;

using the username of another user;

selling or otherwise transferring your profile;

using any information obtained from the Coub Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person;

displaying an advertisement, or accepting payment or anything of value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial activity on or through the Coub Services on behalf of that person, such as posting a Contribution with a commercial purpose; and using the Coub Services in a manner inconsistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.

Passwords.

When you create an account with the Company “User Account”), you will be asked to supply a password. You must keep your password confidential, and are responsible for all use of your password and User Account.

Ownership Rights; License Rights; User Contributions.

Ownership of Your Contributions. You retain ownership of your rights in any Contribution you post to the Website or through the Coub Services, subject to the non-exclusive rights that you grant to us as described in this Agreement.

Your License to Coub Ltd. You hereby grant the Company, Coub Ltd, a world-wide, royalty-free, freely transferable, freely sublicensable (through unlimited levels of sublicense), non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, transmit, distribute, publicly perform and display (including in each case by means of a digital video and audio transmission), advertise in, on, and around, and create derivative works of any of your Contributions, in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. You also hereby waive any moral rights you may have in such Contributions under the laws of any jurisdiction. We may (but are not obligated to) display your Contributions, including your username.

Your License to Other Users: You further grant all users of the Coub Services permission to view your Contributions for their personal, non-commercial purposes. This includes the right to copy and make derivative works from your Contributions to the extent necessary to view the Contributions or create another COUB from any COUB or Contribution created by you and provided through the Coub Services or posted to the Website. The foregoing licenses are in addition to any license you may decide to grant (e.g., a Creative Commons license).

Duration of Licenses: The above licenses will continue for each Contribution unless and until you remove the Contribution from the Coub Services or Website, in which case the licenses will terminate within a commercially reasonable period of time. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the license for legal archival/preservation purposes will continue indefinitely. Please note that any removed Contribution may be cached in search engine indices after removal and that the Company has no control over such caching.

Your Right to Terminate the License. You may remove or modify any Contribution that you post in the Coub Services. If, prior to such removal or modification, the Company has distributed, or developed specific plans to distribute, any electronic, printed, or other materials containing such Contribution (e.g., in advertising, promotion or otherwise), the Company has a limited right to continue to distribute those materials. If you want The Company to stop distributing the materials, simply send us written notice to stop distributing such materials, in which event we will stop distributing the materials within 30 days of receipt of your written notice. Your notice must be signed by you, include your telephone number and email address, and be sent by first class mail, postage prepaid, to Coub Ltd 5 Themistokli Dervi Street, Elenion Building, 1066 Nicosia, Cyprus, Attn: Coub Copyright Agent. In addition, the notice must clearly identify the Contribution at issue, describe the specific use of the Contribution you wish to end, and contain statements that you own or have an exclusive right to the Contribution and that all the information in the notice is true in the same manner as required for the DMCA Copyright Notice in Secton 9 below.

Except for all content created or generated by users as a Contribution, the content provided through the Coub Services or the Website, including without limitation, audio, video, text, visual arts, graphics, sound recordings, animation, music recordings, digital files containing content that can be displayed on the Coub Services, with or without accompanying sound or audio, which content may be fixed, recorded, stored or transmitted in any medium now existing or hereafter developed (“Materials”) and the trademarks, service marks and logos contained therein (“Marks”), are owned by or licensed to the Company, subject to copyright and other intellectual property rights under United States and foreign laws and international conventions. All software and mobile applications provided by the Company is protected by the copyright laws of the United States of America and international copyright treaties. Materials provided to you through the Coub Services and on the Website are provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only and may not be used, copied, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any other purposes whatsoever without the prior written consent of the respective owners. The Company reserves all rights not expressly granted in and to the Materials and the Marks. You agree to not engage in the use, copying, or distribution of any of the Materials other than as expressly permitted by the Company, including any use, copying, or distribution of third parties’ materials obtained through the Coub Services for any commercial purposes. If you download or print a copy of the Materials for personal use, you must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained therein. You agree not to circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with security related features of the Coub Services or features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any Materials or enforce limitations on use of the Coub Services or the Materials therein.

The Company’s Right to Manage the Coub Services and Terminate Users.

The Company’s Management of the Coub Services. The Company reserves the right but does not have the obligation to: (a) monitor the Coub Services for violations of this Agreement; (b) take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in the Company’s sole discretion, violates this Agreement, including without limitation, reporting you to law enforcement authorities; in the Company’s sole discretion and without limitation, refuse, restrict access to or availability of, or disable (to the extent technologically feasible) any user’s Contribution or any portion thereof that may violate this Agreement or any Company policy; (d) in the Company’s sole discretion and without limitation, notice or liability to remove from the Coub Services or otherwise disable all files and content that are excessive in size or are in any way burdensome to the Company’s systems; (e) terminate the User Account(s) of repeat infringers; and (f) to otherwise manage the Coub Services in a manner designed to protect the rights and property of the Company and others and to facilitate the proper functioning of the Coub Services.

The Company’s Right to Terminate Users. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT, THE COMPANY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO, IN THE COMPANY’S SOLE DISCRETION AND WITHOUT NOTICE OR LIABILITY, DENY ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE COUB SERVICES TO, ANY PERSON FOR ANY REASON OR FOR NO REASON AT ALL, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION FOR BREACH OF ANY REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY OR COVENANT CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT, OR OF ANY APPLICABLE LAW OR REGULATION.

Term.

This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Coub Services or have a User Account. You may terminate your use or participation at any time, for any reason. Pursuant to Section 6.2 above, The Company may terminate your use or participation at any time, without warning. Even after your use and participation is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect, including sections 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16.

Noncommercial Use by Users.

The Coub Services are for the personal use of Users only and may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by the Company. You shall not do the following without the express written consent of the Company: (a) make any unauthorized use of the Coub Services, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email; and (b) engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to the Website without reference or attribution to Coub as the provider of the Coub Services.

Copyright Policy.

We respect the intellectual property rights in creative works and of those who create them, and take violations of those rights seriously and expect when you use Coub Services to do the same. In appropriate circumstances and at the Company’s discretion, it is the policy of the Company to disable and/or terminate the User Accounts of users who repeatedly infringe or are repeatedly charged with infringing the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of others. Because the Company takes matters of intellectual property rights violations seriously, we will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using the Coub Services that are reported to Coub’s designated copyright agent (“Coub Copyright Agent”), identified in the notice discussed at http://coub.com/dmca.

Modifications.

The Company may modify this Agreement from time to time, which modifications shall be incorporated into the Agreement and become binding on users in accordance with the introductory text at the beginning of this Agreement. In addition to the notice provided by the change in the Effective Date of this Agreement, the Company may, but is not obligated to, alert all Users with whom it maintains email information, of material modifications by means of sending an email to their most recently provided email address. Any and all changes to or restatements of this Agreement will be reflected on the Website after the words “Effective Date” at the top of this Agreement. You agree to be bound to any changes to this Agreement when you use the Coub Services after any such modification or Effective Date change is posted. It is therefore important that you regularly review this Agreement and keep your contact information current to ensure you are informed of any changes.

Notices and Contact Information.

Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Company will give you any notices by posting them on the Website. Since notice of any material change to this Agreement will be posted to the Website for at least 30 days, we encourage you to visit the Website at least that often. You also authorize the Company to send notices (including notice of subpoenas or other legal process, if any) via electronic mail to either your User Account or to the email address that we have on record for you. You must check the Website for notices, and you will be considered to have received a notice when it is made available to you by posting on the Website or when sent by the Company to your email address via electronic mail, whether or not received by you. The Company may provide notice to any e-mail or other address that you provide to us. You must keep your address current and any notice sent by the Company to the address that you have most recently provided is effective notice. With the exception of notices related to removal of licensed material and to copyright infringement as described in Sections 9 above, you must send us any notice by mailing it to our address for Legal Notices which is: Coub Ltd 5 Themistokli Dervi Street, Elenion Building, 1066 Nicosia, Cyprus,.Attn: Legal Department.

Disputes between Users.

You are solely responsible for your conduct. The Company reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Users.

Disputes with the Company.

ALL DISPUTES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT (INCLUDING ITS FORMATION, PERFORMANCE, OR ALLEGED BREACH) OR YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE MATERIALS, CONTRIBUTIONS AND WEBSITE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION YOUR OR OTHERS’ DOWNLOADING OR CONSUMPTION OF MATERIALS OR OTHER MATERIALS AVAILABLE BY MEANS OF THE COUB SERVICES OR THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS OR WEBSITES, YOUR UPLOADING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WEBSITE, OR YOUR PURCHASING OF GOODS OR SERVICES FROM THIRD PARTIES, WILL BE EXCLUSIVELY RESOLVED UNDER CONFIDENTIAL BINDING ARBITRATION HELD IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA BEFORE AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RULES FOR ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION ESTABLISHED BY THE ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION FIRM ORIGINALLY KNOWN AS JUDICIAL ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION SERVICES, INC., N/K/A JAMS, THE RESOLUTION EXPERTS (“JAMS”). NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, FOR ANY DISPUTE YOU HAVE WITH THE COMPANY, YOU AGREE TO FIRST CONTACT US AND ATTEMPT TO RESOLVE THE DISPUTE WITH US INFORMALLY AND THE COMPANY WILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK INJUNCTIVE RELIEF TO ENFORCE THIS AGREEMENT OR TO STOP OR PREVENT AN INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY OR OTHER THIRD PARTY RIGHTS. IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION OR TO COMPEL ARBITRATION OR TO ENFORCE AN ARBITRATION AWARD UNDER THIS SECTION, OR TO OBTAIN AN INJUNCTION UNDER THIS SECTION, THE PARTIES HEREBY IRREVOCABLY CONSENT AND SUBMIT TO THE EXCLUSIVE PERSONAL JURISDICTION AND VENUE OF THE STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS LOCATED IN SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE GOVERNED AND INTERPRETED EXCLUSIVELY UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.

Disclaimers.

The Company cannot control the nature of the content available through the Coub Services. By providing and operating the Coub Services, The Company does not represent or imply that The Company endorses any comments, Contributions or other content available on or linked to by the Coub Services, including without limitation content hosted on third party Websites, or that The Company believes Contributions, comments or other content to be accurate, useful or nonharmful.

YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE COUB SERVICES WILL BE AT YOUR SOLE RISK. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. THE COMPANY, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THE COUB SERVICES AND YOUR USE THEREOF. THE COMPANY MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE WEBSITE’S OR COUB SERVICES’ CONTENT. CONTRIBUTIONS, OR THE CONTENT OF ANY WEBSITES LINKED TO THE WEBSITE OR THE COUB SERVICES AND ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY (A) ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES OF CONTENT AND MATERIALS, (B) PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF OUR WEBSITE OR THE COUB SERVICES, ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR SECURE SERVERS AND/OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION AND/OR FINANCIAL INFORMATION STORED THEREIN, (D) ANY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM THE WEBSITE OR THE COUB SERVICES , (E) ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, OR THE LIKE WHICH MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH THE WEBSITE OR THE COUB SERVICES BY ANY THIRD PARTY, AND/OR (F) ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY CONTENT AND MATERIALS OR FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF ANY CONTENT POSTED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE VIA THE WEBSITE OR THE .COUB SERVICES. THE COMPANY DOES NOT WARRANT, ENDORSE, GUARANTEE, OR ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE ADVERTISED OR OFFERED BY A THIRD PARTY THROUGH THE WEBSITE OR THE COUB SERVICES OR ANY MOBILE APPLICATION, HYPERLINKED WEBSITE OR FEATURED IN ANY BANNER OR OTHER ADVERTISING, AND THE COMPANY WILL NOT BE A PARTY TO OR IN ANY WAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MONITORING ANY TRANSACTION BETWEEN YOU AND THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES. AS WITH THE PURCHASE OF A PRODUCT OR SERVICE THROUGH ANY MEDIUM OR IN ANY ENVIRONMENT, YOU SHOULD USE YOUR BEST JUDGMENT AND EXERCISE CAUTION WHERE APPROPRIATE. YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT USE OF THE COUB SERVICES, EXPRESSLY INCLUDING ANY MOBILE APPLICATIONS OR OTHER SOFTWARE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND THAT THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO SATISFACTORY QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, ACCURACY AND EFFORT IS WITH YOU. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SOFTWARE AND ANY SERVICES PERFORMED OR PROVIDED BY THE SOFTWARE (“PERFORMANCE”) ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, AND THE COMPANY HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE PERFORMANCE, EITHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND/OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OF ACCURACY, OF QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS. THE COMPANY DOES NOT WARRANT AGAINST INTERFERENCE WITH YOUR ENJOYMENT OF THE PERFORMANCE, THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN, OR SERVICES PERFORMED OR PROVIDED BY THE PERFORMANCE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, THAT THE OPERATION OF THE PERFORMANCE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT DEFECTS IN THE PERFORMANCE WILL BE CORRECTED. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY THE COMPANY OR ITS AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE(S) SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR LIMITATIONS ON APPLICABLE STATUTORY RIGHTS OF A CONSUMER, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION AND LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Limitation on Liability.

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COMPANY BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE COUB SERVICES, EVEN IF THE COMPANY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, THE COMPANY’S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO THE COMPANY FOR THE COUB SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE OR THE COUB SERVICES

Indemnity.

You agree to indemnify and hold the Company, its subsidiaries and affiliates, if any, and their respective officers, agents, partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your Contributions, use of the Coub Services in violation of this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set forth above and/or if any Contribution that you post on the Website or through the Coub Services causes the Company to be liable to a third party.

Other.

This Agreement together with our Privacy Policy and any other exhibits or documents linked to it or incorporated into this Agreement by reference, constitutes the entire agreement between you and the Company regarding the use of the Coub Services. The failure of the Company to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in this Agreement are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. This Agreement operates to the fullest extent permissible by law. If any provision or part of a provision of this Agreement is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision or part of the provision is deemed severable from this Agreement and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. The terms and conditions contained in this Agreement may not be modified by you except in a writing duly signed by you and an authorized representative of the Company. This Agreement will not be governed by the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, the application of which is hereby expressly excluded.